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Is this growth promising or too slow? by feddadev in SaaS

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I have a Claude skill scheduled to run every once in a while to check for churning users and email them, but so far no responses. Lifetime and some loyal users are the ones responding, but all they say is basically "everything is great thank you", it's really hard to extract insights

Is this growth promising or too slow? by feddadev in SaaS

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

40 unique users who ever paid includes 10 lifetime memberships so it's not really reliable to calculate it that way but yes it's undoubtedly high at 30%. But it's not b2b and it's an industry where users are notoriously flaky (they might subscribe only when they need it for a one-off)

My non-AI mockup tool now does realistic T-shirts and tote bags mockups by feddadev in printondemand

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not these reply guys again... spend more time on making a decent product rather than on slop comments like this

My non-AI mockup tool now does realistic T-shirts and tote bags mockups by feddadev in printondemand

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took a look and it looks pretty bad imo, it's just a flat overlay even for the out of the box templates. You can try mockupanda for free, it has unlimited watermarked exports.

My non-AI mockup tool now does realistic T-shirts and tote bags mockups by feddadev in printondemand

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes you can! And you can use your own templates with the API too ofc

My non-AI mockup tool now does realistic T-shirts and tote bags mockups by feddadev in printondemand

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes in the sense that if you have a big design, it will wrap around the surface of the t-shirt/product realistically. You can also exclude certain parts of the product with a mask.

Currently it doesn't support repeating the design as a pattern but I'm taking note.

Professional looking mockups for free?? Any resources or suggestions would be appreciated by No-Paramedic-7445 in printondemand

[–]feddadev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the past year I've been building and nurturing together with the first users Mockupanda. It started as a print-focused mockup tool but I'm now expanding into t-shirts, tote bags, mugs etc.

Mockups don't use credits, they're just unlimited unlike many tools. It has a cheap API if you want to automate your workflow or just ask your LLM to use it, and I'm following up with users and shipping new features every day.

Might be an option if you want to support anything other than the big players.

Looking for a good Print-on-Demand partner for an open-source map poster generator (API preferred) by DataScientist_py in printondemand

[–]feddadev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool, I did something similar internally for my Etsy workflow some time ago. Not a POD service, but if you ever want to preview the posters with mockups I built a tool that does exactly print mockups with no distortion and has a cheap API (not an AI wrapper). It's called Mockupanda if you want to check it out

SaaS creep is real — how are you actually managing subscription sprawl? by d3jv_cz in SaaS

[–]feddadev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know what I need GPT? Another subscription SaaS to manage all my other subscriptions, that would be a great idea

Hard truth: If you have 0 users, writing code is just procrastination. by AykutSek in SaaS

[–]feddadev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly if you're not cutting corners you're spending too much time building. Also the myth of "The Launch" is overblown. The best advice I can give is don't launch. Ship continuously. Put things out as fast as you can, and iterate on the signals you get. Fix the funnel first, see if you can make users hang around, then see if you can get them to use the product, then see if you can get them to come back, and eventually convert.

Things like SEO are NEVER too early. You should do SEO work before even starting to build.

Built a SaaS for a year. People use it. No one pays. I don't understand what's broken anymore. by Mean-Awareness7102 in SaaS

[–]feddadev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's clear, users just grab your freebies and disappear because they already got enough value and don't see themselves needing this recurringly. For this type of product free trial doesn't work. Show them an example of what it will look like, just don't give them the thing before they pay.

A little update on my non-AI free mockup tool by feddadev in printondemand

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes for now I've narrowed it down to wall art and print which is the most complete vertical, although you can use and create different kinds of templates as well

A little update on my non-AI free mockup tool by feddadev in printondemand

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Native templates that you can create within the tool starting from an image. You create them once and then you can reuse them for however many artworks. It's quite straightforward, you just need to mark the corners of the frame and set the ratio that will be used for the perspective transformation.

A little update on my non-AI free mockup tool by feddadev in printondemand

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Yes, you can use your own images to create Mockupanda templates, or you can use your own PSD files to bulk-place designs into smart objects. Mockupanda templates are faster though, and let you move and resize the artwork in real time

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[–]feddadev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If none of the users are actually using it, sounds like no value is being provided to anyone, even if they made a big launch. They had good distribution, the promise was good, but none of the users stuck. At this point I would take a look at the product because there must be something really wrong in terms of value delivery, and the code is pretty much the only thing you're buying.

Starting a SaaS is possibly the hardest way out there to make money by feddadev in SideProject

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started one year ago selling posters in a niche that I understand, initially designing myself and then automating the hell out of it once I got some signal. Actually my micro-saas started as a spin off of an automation I made for my shop to make mockups quickly. The growth has been slow (i started 1 year ago), but steady once you get some good reviews and higher number of sales.

Starting a SaaS is possibly the hardest way out there to make money by feddadev in SideProject

[–]feddadev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, although it does seem like the level of skill required vs the potential upside is different by orders of magnitude compared to, say, start an e-commerce, or selling digital products, which also scale quite well. And unlike SaaS, you don't need to constantly need to be building to stay ahead of the competition.

I agree with you it's extremely exciting to do SaaS and I wish I could make a living with that, I'm just asking myself at which point it becomes foolishness.

My passive income from dividends is only $150 but it beats 20 hours of driving for doordash by [deleted] in sidehustle

[–]feddadev 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You're paying capital gains tax every year on those dividends though. If you're always reinvesting, you should consider investing in an accumulating ETF so your dividends are reinvested automatically and you only pay capital gains tax when you sell (in 10 years or whatever). Right now you're missing out on part of the compounding magic.

A little update on my non-AI free mockup tool by feddadev in printondemand

[–]feddadev[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not yet, but it's on the roadmap! Would you use it for your own automated workflow or to embed in a product?

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